the Zoo entrance in 1978View link
prior to the Zoo, the site was occupied by the notorious Belle Vue prisonView link
the roller coasters in 1956, this is now where the entrance to the cinema car park isView link

the cinema has now been repainted in beige and maroon giving it a very 80’s looksView link

an odd find in the London Museum, a magazine called The Astorian – the official organ of the Astoria Brixton – the best south-west… Brixton wonder picture theatre!
presumably dating from around the openinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/5447963081/

photo of the lobby december 2010http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/5368493254/
the cinema continues successfully inspite of being over the road from the Westfield Vue complex, the two sites are programmed together and this location now has more esoteric programming (including arthouse and bollywood)

The Odeon Metrocentre 11 closed in Dec 2009 and the business transfered to another part of the mall into a new 12 screen building with stadium seating.
The cinema remains one of the most sucessful cinemas in the UK in terms of attendance (around one millions admissions per year)